Woman gave police switch with fake name

She pretended to be her sister

Magdala Legagneur interfered with a police traffic stop, police said. She gave an officer a false name and occupation, police said. She was arrested.

But the record for April 12 doesn't show that.

The record shows that Catiana Rettenberger, who was actually at home in Munich, Germany, at the time, was arrested in Delray Beach for all those things on April 12.

That's because, in addition to telling police she was Maggie Gray and that she worked for a prominent lawyer, Legagneur then pretended to be her sister when she was arrested, police acknowledged.

"She is using my name," Rettenberger, who used to live in Florida, said in a telephone conversation from Munich.

On the Saturday in question, police say Legagneur walked up to an officer who had just pulled over a possible drunken driver on Southwest Fifth Avenue in Delray Beach and told the driver not to cooperate. She said she worked for a well-known lawyer and ignored the officer's warnings not to interfere.

When she was arrested, she admitted her name wasn't Maggie Gray. Instead, she told police she was Catiana Rettenberger.

Rettenberger was shocked to see in a news item that she'd been arrested 5,000 miles away. She called Delray Beach police to alert them, police acknowledged.

She said she hasn't spoken to her sister for more than a decade and that her sister used her name once before, in 1998.

Delray Beach police spokesman Jeff Messer said police have confirmed that the woman arrested on April 12 was Legagneur.